O-1A #4997 was on the Orient #2 night job (@ West
Frankfort) on January 27, 1959. This was the last
steam mine run. This is all per the Herrin Junction
roundhouse foreman's "turnover" book.
--- LZadnichek@aol.com wrote:
> December 20, 2004
>
> Mr. McCauley - In answer to your latest post, if
> there was one lucky O1-a, it
> was the 4978. I'm sending you offline a photograph I
> took of the derelict
> 2-8-2 on March 17, 1963 on a turntable stub track at
> the Galesburg roundhouse.
>
> At the time I took her photograph, the 4978 and 4960
> were the only two O1-a
> engines left on the official CB&Q roster. The
> stripped and tenderless 4943 was
> still on the property, but was awaiting shipment to
> NWS&W to be scrapped.
>
> The 4978 survived as she had been retained for
> stationary boiler service.
> Fortunately, she survived long enough to be donated.
> I have copies of March 1963
> and September 1960 "Condition and Location of
> Locomotives" for the Galesburg
> Division.
>
> The March 1963 report states that the 4978 had last
> received heavy repairs in
> March 1955 and had run 34,035 miles since that date.
> The O1-a additionally
> had 67 months flue credit and 40 months firebox
> credit for being out of service.
>
> If you back out 67 months from March 1963, then the
> last time the 4978 was
> fired up would've been August 1957. Thus, unless the
> O1-a underwent class
> repairs at Galesburg sometime after March 1963, it's
> impossible she steamed to
> Ottawa for display.
>
> Rather, unless someone can prove me wrong, the
> CB&Q's Galesburg roundhouse
> gang cosmetically restored the 4978 to first class
> appearance to be towed as a
> dead engine. Today, she looks wonderful in her new
> home at the Mendota station.
>
> Thus, the 4978 was NOT one of the last Q steam
> engines to operate. That
> distinction would fall to one of her O1-a sisters at
> Herrin Junction in January
> 1959. Do any records remain of exactly which O1-a
> was the LAST to be fired up for
> a mine run?
>
> Louis Zadnichek II
> Fairhope, AL
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been
> removed]
>
>
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